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10. TAKE MY FIRE
Album: NATIVE TONGUE
Artist: Switchfoot
         
 

[Verse 1]
Everyday enemy tried to get the best of me
The enemy under my skin
Everyday enemy, my fatal flaw anatomy
Feeling like I just can't win
Sometimes I wish I didn’t feel that much
Sometimes I wish I didn't need that touch, but
Everyday my enemy pretend to be a friend to me
No matter what state I'm in

[Chorus]
But you’re never going to take my fire
I cannot be tamed
No you're never gonna take my fire
It's burning in my veins, hey
You say the world is changing
But I still burn the same
No you're never gonna take my fire, take my fire
Let me burn now, yeah

[Verse 2]
The safety that you're selling me
One day be the death of me
A face like you just saw ghosts
Images on the box again
Takin' up all the oxygen
Tell me how we sunk this low
Ain't it coming, ain't the end in sight?
To steal it back like a thief in the night
There’s my own sworn enemy
Faking and pretend to be
A wolf in a sheepskin coat

[Chorus]
But you’re never going to take my fire
In spite of all your rain
No you're never gonna take my fire
It’s burning in my veins, hey
You say the world is changing
But I still burn the same
No you're never gonna take my fire, take my fire, because

[Bridge]
I'm a fighter, a soul all-nighter
I'ma recognize the truth, I’ma recognize a liar
You're never gonna take my fire
True beginner, a loser and a winner
Part saint, part sinner, and all of me desire
You're never gonna take my fire
I'm a giver, a one arrow quiver
I've been sending my regrets down the river of fire
You're never gonna take my
My fire, a loose, live wire
I'm a one-shot rocket aiming higher and higher (And higher)

[Chorus]
'Cause you're never gonna take my fire, hey
No, you're never gonna take my fire, oh, oh, oh, oh
The ancient flame lit the spark back before I was young
When I'm speaking with the fire it's my native tongue
No you're never gonna take my fire, take my fire
Let me burn now

Produced by Tim Foreman & Jon Foreman Written by Tim Foreman & Jon Foreman

 

More Lyrics from NATIVE TONGUE

  1. 01. LET IT HAPPEN
  2. 02. NATIVE TONGUE
  3. 03. ALL I NEED
  4. 04. VOICES
  5. 05. DIG NEW STREAMS
  6. 06. JOY INVINCIBLE
  7. 07. PRODIGAL SOUL
  8. 08. THE HARDEST ART (feat. Kaela Sinclair)
  9. 09. WONDERFUL FEELING
  10. 10. TAKE MY FIRE
  11. 11. THE STRENGTH TO LET GO
  12. 12. OXYGEN
  13. 13. WE'RE GONNA BE ALRIGHT
  14. 14. YOU'RE THE ONE I WANT
  15. 15. WHITE LIES (Bonus Track)
  16. 16. DON'T WANT YOUR MONEY (Bonus Track)
                 
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